Chapter 72. Shocking Changes
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
T/N-: *WARNING* This chapter contains SA.
Du Yan was pulled by Xiao Lang to run forward, but Fan Shi’s body was very weak. As a widow who never left the house, her body was out of breath after running a few steps.
The two were captured before they even reached the village entrance.
Perhaps because the peddler was from another village, the two were not imprisoned in the ancestral hall this time but were taken to the banyan tree and tied to it with ropes.
Du Yan looked at the person standing in front of him.
The torches flickered, and the light sources flickered, leaving flickering shadows on the faces in front of him. Almost every person’s face was half in the light, and the other half was shrouded in darkness. In the daytime, these people might be just simple farmers, but under the cover of darkness, they turn into beasts one after another.
After a while, the white-bearded clan leader came forward from behind the crowd.
The expression on his face was one of contempt, disgust, and a bit of superiority: “Fan Shi, do you have anything else to say now?”
Du Yan looked at the people in front of him and had no desire to speak out in defense. There was no need to play the blame game. Deep inside his body, the despair that belonged to Fan Shi surged out. If it were someone else, they would have been crushed by this extreme despair and would have really regarded themselves as the Fan Shi who suffered a miserable fate two hundred years ago.
He suddenly turned his head and glanced at Xiao Lang, a little worried that Xiao Lang would be affected by these emotions. Xiao Lang happened to look over, his eyes were still bright, and he nodded slightly when Du Yan looked over.
Neither of them spoke, but Du Yan could somehow understand Xiao Lang’s look, probably trying to comfort him and tell him not to be afraid.
Perhaps it was because neither of the two ‘prisoners’ felt any fear or remorse, and the clan leader couldn’t continue his one-man show. He choked out one sentence: “Ignorant of repentance! So unsightly!”
Afterward, the clan leader pointed at a few young men and said: “You, stay and watch them, so they don’t run away again.”
Du Yan felt that the people in front of him looked familiar. He thought about it and compared them from his memory. These faces were the corpses that appeared in the coffins when they first entered the underground ancestral hall.
By this calculation, these should be the first group of people that Fan Shi took revenge on after becoming a fierce ghost. Du Yan can probably predict what will happen next.
It’s not that he has no way to escape, but he doesn’t know if he can successfully find the place where Fan Shi was sealed after forcibly escaping from this illusion. Liang Fei must have gone there now.
Du Yan thought for a while and decided to wait and see.
Sure enough, when tranquility was restored in the village, those people couldn’t help themselves. They looked at each other and came forward to untie the rope that tied Du Yan.
Du Yan saw that Xiao Lang’s expression turned extremely ferocious in an instant, and he was still struggling desperately even though he was tightly tied up. He winked at Xiao Lang, hinting that it was all an illusion and that he should not be too emotionally affected.
Xiao Lang calmed down a little after seeing Du Yan’s expression.
What happened next was like a replay of the scene in the ancestral hall. These people probably wanted to convince themselves that their actions were reasonable and righteous by insulting Fan Shi. In short, there were endless filthy words.
Du Yan remained silent until he was pressed to the ground, and then he frowned slightly. A pair of hands tore open his clothes. Du Yan’s emotions did not fluctuate at all, but he did not want to experience what happened next.
At this time, Du Yan’s hands and feet were all held down, and only his head could move. But for him, it was enough. Du Yan pressed his teeth against his tongue, preparing to use the blood from the tip of his tongue to escape.
The blood from the tip of the tongue flows through the pericardium meridian of the human body and is the blood with the strongest yang energy. In addition, Du Yan was a cultivator and had a virgin body, so a mouthful of blood from the tip of his tongue could break this illusion.
However, before he could bite down, he heard Xiao Lang roar: “Let him go!”
Du Yan was frightened by the sudden sound and almost bit his tongue carelessly. He looked in the direction of Xiao Lang and saw a hazy shadow appearing on the peddler.
With that appearance and clothes, who could it be if it wasn’t Xiao Lang himself? The current situation of the two of them was actually very strange. It was equivalent to them being dragged into the memories of the past by a fierce ghost.
Simply put, the consciousness and soul of the two people were trapped in the bodies of Fan Shi and the peddler in the illusion and experienced everything that had happened from their perspective. If they fail to control their emotions and feel the same way for a moment, they will become the real Fan Shi or the peddler at that moment, and the connection with their own bodies will be cut off for a moment. That moment is the best time to be possessed by a powerful ghost.
Du Yan was not affected by Fan Shi’s emotions. He wanted to end the illusion forcibly. One reason was that he could not stand what was going to happen next. Another reason was that he felt that what was happening now was no longer the past.
From the time Xiao Lang broke into the ancestral hall and rescued him, the trajectory of events might have been different from that year, so leaving now would not have any impact.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Lang, while still conscious, forced his soul to leave his body and was able to move freely in the illusion.
As soon as Xiao Lang got out of the peddler’s body, he rushed straight towards Du Yan. However, now, he was completely unable to touch the farmers in the illusion and could only wave his fist in vain at the void.
Du Yan shouted: “Come here and give me a hand.”
Although Xiao Lang didn’t understand why, he immediately grabbed Du Yan’s hand and pulled him up. Du Yan escaped from Fan Shi’s body, and now both of them were in a state of soul separation.
Du Yan originally thought that this illusion that went in different directions would end immediately after both of them left. Unexpectedly, the tragedy before his eyes continued.
Du Yan said in a deep voice: “Back then, the peddler also came back to save Fan Shi.”
The big banyan tree in front of them stood quietly in the darkness, and the wind blew through the leaves, rustling. However, it was no longer the peaceful and quiet one they had seen before. The silent banyan tree became a witness to the tragedy.
Fan Shi’s miserable cry for help was particularly harsh in the village at night. Some villagers rushed over from their homes, but when a little hope ignited in Fan Shi’s eyes, those villagers stood quietly aside with a slightly distorted look on their faces, and even began to unfasten their belts.
The women in the village did not go out, and the doors and windows were tightly closed. The people who came were all young men, standing under the big banyan tree with silent smiles.
Perhaps the peddler’s roar made these people a little irritated, and some began to come forward and relieve the boredom of waiting by torturing the peddler.
Fan Shi just lay on the ground, watching the peddler roaring at the beginning, and then being tortured to the point of dying, with bruises all over his body. Finally, the peddler’s head dropped down, and never raised it again.
At that moment, the first tear finally fell from Fan Shi’s eyes. However, from beginning to end, she did not close her eyes but stared with red eyes, carefully memorizing the ugly and evil faces of these people in front of her one by one.
This crime lasted from late at night to early morning. In the end, Fan Shi was strangled to death with a trouser belt and then hung from a banyan tree.
After dawn, the clan leader came to the banyan tree. The young men guarding the area looked panicked and excused themselves by saying that they had fallen asleep. When they woke up, they found that the two persons had committed suicide out of fear of crime.
The clan leader only took a look at the two bodies hanging on the tree. Even though the peddler was covered in bruises and Fan Shi was naked, he just said lightly: “Throw the man into the mountains, untie the woman and hang her on the beam of her house. For the sake of the reputation of Juren, tell the outside world that his mother followed her late husband and ask the county to build a chastity archway for her.”
The young man next to him asked: “Will Juren pursue the matter?”
The clan leader sneered: “Which one is more beneficial to his future, a loyal mother or a mother who elopes with others? He made his choice long ago.”
When the clan leader turned around and left, someone in the crowd said disdainfully: “The chastity arch is really a bargain for this slut.”
Everything in front of them finally ended, and all the scenes gradually faded away like ink.
What appeared in front of Du Yan and Xiao Lang was a dark ancestral hall. Looking out from the skylight, they could see the dark stone walls. It turned out that there was a natural cave under the village.
This underground ancestral hall was built in a karst cave, directly below the village ancestral hall. In the hall of the village ancestral hall, the corpse and spirit tablet of the peddler were placed, in the underground ancestral hall, the fierce ghost Fan Shi was suppressed.
Du Yan and Xiao Lang forcibly escaped from the bodies of Fan Shi and the peddler in the illusion, which resulted in the two of them now being in a state of soul separation in the real world.
Du Yan looked up and saw the entire structure of the ancestral hall.
The structure of this underground ancestral hall was exactly the same as the ancestral hall in the village. The only difference was that the inner hall was not separated, but connected to the main hall. In the center of the ancestral hall, there was a stone coffin.
In front of the stone coffin, there was an unconscious person sitting, it was Liang Fei. Liang Fei’s backpack had been opened, and there was nothing inside.
Xiao Lang subconsciously wanted to go forward to see Liang Fei’s condition, but was stopped by Du Yan: “Look back.”
Xiao Lang looked back and found two people lying at the door. They looked very familiar. They were himself and Du Yan.
“What’s going on?”
Du Yan said: “The soul is out of the body, but we are not dead yet, don’t worry.”
Xiao Lang looked at his body falling to the ground and felt that it was too strange. He asked hurriedly: “What should we do now? How can we get back to our bodies?”
Du Yan glanced at him and said: “If I were still in my body, I would be able to help you get back. But in this situation, ask yourself.”
Xiao Lang was almost full of questions: “Ask myself?”
Du Yan nodded: “Go back the same way you came out. When you go back, give me the talisman on your neck, and I will go back.”
Xiao Lang nodded, looking trustworthy: “Leave it to me.”
After a few minutes, the scene did not change.
The two of them were speechless, and Du Yan had to remind him: “Just remember that you must return to your body now, otherwise something very dangerous will happen.”
Xiao Lang tried hard for a long time, but still to no avail.
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